how to hide elephants - er... umm... well, I mean 40 sewing machine tables...
10-02-2014, 04:43 PM
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Back in 2005 or so, I sold a bunch of nice Singer table-type cabinets on ebay before I moved. They were all original, not painted. I got discarded push mower boxes from Lowes and whenever I'd see one out for trash pickup. Used those as my shipping boxes. Took the legs off of cabinets, bubble-wrapped the legs. Used styrofoam sheet insulation on the top and sides of the table-top part. Packed crumpled newspaper around it all and shipped them. Shipping was less costly then, though, and people seemed to have more money and ebay was still hawt.
Back in 2005 or so, I sold a bunch of nice Singer table-type cabinets on ebay before I moved. They were all original, not painted. I got discarded push mower boxes from Lowes and whenever I'd see one out for trash pickup. Used those as my shipping boxes. Took the legs off of cabinets, bubble-wrapped the legs. Used styrofoam sheet insulation on the top and sides of the table-top part. Packed crumpled newspaper around it all and shipped them. Shipping was less costly then, though, and people seemed to have more money and ebay was still hawt.
10-03-2014, 12:54 PM
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I got tired of all the extra cabinets so one day I went through them all, decided which ones I wanted to keep and brought the rest...8 of them...out to the road. I posted a "FREE"/curb alert ad on CL. They were all gone within a few hours.
I still have 8 or 9 cabinets scrattered around the house being used as desks and end tables.
I still have 8 or 9 cabinets scrattered around the house being used as desks and end tables.
10-03-2014, 01:13 PM
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I got rid of a few. Then I got a Davis in a treadle. I think I'm over the edge... Some tables have machines to fit them some just need to go. Maybe over the week end.......... Then maybe I need to see if I can fit a FW in one........ call it a VERY rare FW cabinet..........
10-03-2014, 03:44 PM
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I can't find a decently priced Singer treadle in this area to save my life. Folks around here are trying to make the mortgage payment on a single machine that looks worse than my rust buckets. If I lived in Indy I would be overflowing with great machines. The prices there are unreal compared to here.
10-03-2014, 03:51 PM
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I can't find a decently priced Singer treadle in this area to save my life. Folks around here are trying to make the mortgage payment on a single machine that looks worse than my rust buckets. If I lived in Indy I would be overflowing with great machines. The prices there are unreal compared to here.
10-03-2014, 06:38 PM
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